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a·cous·tic (ə-kū’stĭk)
  1.  Of or being an instrument that does not produce or enhance sound electronically: an acoustic guitar; an acoustic bass.
   2. Being a performance that features such instruments: opened the show with an acoustic set.

 

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The Lament for the Viscount of Dundee / Dr MacPhail’s Reel

Tony McManus

The first time I heard this I couldn’t believe my ears and knew immediately that I would start playing this kind of music on guitar. It’s an example of piobaireachd, the classical music of the Great Highland bagpipes, arranged for guitar. Tony gets the bagpipe drone sound by tuning three strings to A and capoing at the first fret to give Bb, the drone note of the pipes. The tuning is DAAEAE.

I’ve never learned to play this and really ought to. I do play some of Tony’s arrangements, but the tuning is a bit whacky and laziness means I don’t bother changing tunings. I can get to DADGAD and even CGDGAD easily enough, but DAAEAE just seems nuts.

Enjoy.